Lila Ibrahim
Chief Operating Officer of Google DeepMind
Google DeepMind's first chief operating officer, who manages the company's scaling and its responsible-AI work.
Biography
Lila Ibrahim is an American engineer and businesswoman, hired in April 2018 as DeepMind's first chief operating officer. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Lebanon. She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 1993, then spent 18 years at Intel, starting as a design engineer on the Pentium processor and later serving as chief of staff to CEO Craig Barrett.
In 2010 she became chief of staff at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, through which she began working with Coursera, where she became president in 2013 and later chief operating officer. At DeepMind, with founders Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg she signed the 2023 Center for AI Safety statement that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority, and according to TIME her duties include managing that risk. TIME named her to its 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI, and in 2026 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Notable contributions
Became DeepMind's first chief operating officer
Hired in April 2018 as the first COO of DeepMind (now Google DeepMind), after earlier roles at Coursera, Kleiner Perkins and Intel.
Named to the TIME100 AI list
Included in TIME's 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2026.
